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...campaign. The contenders first met in 1978, when Dornan beat Peck by only 2% of the vote. Some waggish voters are calling this contest Jaws II. Peck has been aided by such celebrities as Walter Matthau, Helen Reddy and Lily Tomlin; Dornan is relying on contributions from conservatives, plus the help of right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, to match Peck...
...real-life boss who found himself with a secretarial pool consisting of self-starters like Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton would be afraid to make waves. But in Nine to Five, which the three are shooting together in Hollywood, their reel-life boss is so tyrannical they spend perfectly good clock-watching time fantasizing ways to get him into hot water. Some ways are slightly extreme: rat poison in the coffee Tomlin is required to fetch him, for example. But the movie is played for laughs, and in the end stenovirtue triumphs when the underlings reorganize the office...
Truffaut was the director whom Producer Stanley Jaffe first hired for Kramer. When scheduling conflicts developed, Jaffe turned to Benton. Though he has directed only two previous movies, Bad Company (an antic western with Jeff Bridges) and The Late Show (an eccentric detective story with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin), Benton's career stretches back over a decade. With his longtime writing partner, David Newman, he co-authored the most influential film script of the '60s, Bonnie and Clyde, which, like Kramer, leavened conflict with smart wit. He and Newman also collaborated on such diverse '70s movies...
...movie, "9 to 5," concerns three secretaries, Fonda, Dolly Parton and possibly Lilly Tomlin, who fantasize about killing their boss and eventually kidnap him without, all without causing a decline in the efficiency of their office...
Alderman, who began her career as a secretary to Carl Reiner, said script writers are dictated to by television executives. Her credits include episodes of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Maude," and she received an Emmy Award nomination for "Lily," a T.V. special on Lily Tomlin...